Paul Harrison Tibbitt IV (born May 13, 1968) is an American animator, television producer, writer, storyboard artist, songwriter, voice actor, and director, best known for working on the animated series SpongeBob SquarePants. After SpongeBob creator Stephen Hillenburg resigned in 2004, Tibbitt took the position of showrunner for the show. He also took over as the voice of Potty the Parrot, whom Hillenburg had voiced until his resignation. Tibbitt made his feature film directorial debut directing The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water. He studied in the Character Animation program at the California Institue of the Arts.
In 2015, Vincent Waller (a creative director) and Marc Ceccarelli (a writer and storyboard director) took Tibbitt's place as supervising producer and showrunner. It was also announced that Tibbitt would leave the series after season 9 to work on The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (which was produced and released without the involvement of the show's crew by a separate crew), but he lended his directing and writing position to Tim Hill.
Filmography[]
TV series[]
- 1c - "Tea at the Treedome" - writer/storyboard director
- 2b - "Ripped Pants" - writer/storyboard director
- 6a - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy" - writer/storyboard director
- 9a - "Nature Pants" - writer/storyboard director
- 10a - "Culture Shock" - writer/storyboard director
- 12b - "Employee of the Month" - writer/storyboard director
- 13a - "Scaredy Pants" - writer/storyboard director
- 15a - "Sleepy Time" - writer/storyboard artist/storyboard director
- 15b - "Suds" - writer/storyboard artist/storyboard director
- 17b - "Rock Bottom" - writer/storyboard director
- 21a "Your Shoe's Untied" - writer/director
- 21b "Squid's Day Off" - writer/director
- 22b "Bossy Boots" - writer/director
- 24b "Imitation Krabs" - writer/director
- 25a - "Wormy" - writer/director
- 26a - "Grandma's Kisses" - writer/director
- 28 - "Christmas Who?" - writer/director
- 29b - "Dumped" - writer/director
- 31a - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy III" - writer/director
- 31b - "Squirrel Jokes" - writer/director
- 32b - "The Smoking Peanut" - writer/director
- 34a - "Welcome to the Chum Bucket" - writer/storyboard director
- 34b - "Frankendoodle" - writer/director
- 35a - "The Secret Box" - writer/storyboard director
- 37a - "Procrastination" - writer/storyboard director
- 38a - "Sailor Mouth" - writer/storyboard director
- 38b - "Artist Unknown" - writer/storyboard director
- 39a - "Jellyfish Hunter" - writer/storyboard director
- 40a - "Squid on Strike" - writer/storyboard director
- 42b - "My Pretty Seahorse" - writer/storyboard director
- 44a - "Nasty Patty" - writer/storyboard director
- 44b - "Idiot Box" - writer/storyboard director
- 46a - "Snowball Effect" - writer/storyboard director
- 46b - "One Krabs Trash" - writer/storyboard director
- 48a - "No Weenies Allowed" - writer/storyboard director
- 49a - "Krab Borg" - writer/storyboard director
- 51 - "Party Pooper Pants" - writer/storyboard director
- 52a - "Chocolate with Nuts" - writer/storyboard director
- 53a - "New Student Starfish" - writer/storyboard director
- 54 - "Ugh" - writer/storyboard director
- 55a - "The Great Snail Race" - writer/storyboard director
- 56a - "Born Again Krabs" - writer/storyboard director
- 57a - "Krabby Land" - writer/storyboard director
- 58a - "Missing Identity" - writer/storyboard director
- 59 - "The Sponge Who Could Fly" - writer/storyboard director
- 60a - "SpongeBob Meets the Strangler" - writer/storyboard director
- 60b - "Pranks a Lot" - writer/storyboard director
- 61a - "Fear of a Krabby Patty" - writer
- 61b - "Shell of a Man" - writer
- 63 - "Have You Seen This Snail?" - writer
- 67b - "Mermaid Man and Barnacle Boy VI: The Motion Picture" - writer
- 72a - "Whale of a Birthday" - writer
- 111 - "SpongeBob SquarePants vs. The Big One" - writer
- 123-124 - "Truth or Square" - writer
- 126 - "The Clash of Triton" - writer
- 168a - "Restraining SpongeBob" - writer
Films[]
- The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) - writer/storyboard
- The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) - director/producer/story/voice of Kyle the Seagull